LANDER — Across the nation there is an unseen shortage; in Wyoming, some of the state’s smallest long-distance travelers are not coming home. Over the past 50 years, the population of birds as a whole ...

On a warm July morning, Will Krohn gingerly gripped a small pair of pliers in one hand and a newly hatched bird in the other. With the chick peeking its head out between two of Krohn’s fingers, Krohn ...

Owl Research Institute field technician and head bander Lauren Tate works to band a saw-whet owl at Flathead Lake Biological Station Tuesday, Oct. 15. (Avery Howe/Bigfork Eagle) A Saw-whet owl gets ...

HERMISTON — Deep in the sandy terrain of Rees Training Center, a small owl with bright yellow eyes peered from an artificial burrow that became home to the most successful burrowing owl colony in the ...

There’s more to bird migration patterns than meets the eye. Learn when and how birds migrate and discover which species makes ...

A plan to shoot down half a million barred owls in the northwestern United States could ensure the continued existence of its close relative, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The ...

It was 50 years ago this month that President Richard Nixon signed what would become one of the nation’s most far-reaching environmental laws: the Endangered Species Act. The act was intended to ...

A decade after the first burrowing owls were released onto its reserve lands, the Upper Nicola Band is marking what leaders and partners describe as a rare conservation success in ...